"Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind."

-- Joyce Carol Oates

#Mind Quotes #Technique Quotes #Reader Quotes

“Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.”
“There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.”
“In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.”
“The wolf stared down at me, paws still on my chest, its shaggy tail thumping from side tot side and spraying us both with snow. It seemed like...it expected me to do something. Maybe my mind was completley gone, because there was only one thing I could thing of right now that might satisfy it. I reached up en awkwardly patted the side of its head, since that was al i could reach. "Nice puppy," I whispered, and passed out.”
“In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.”
“With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.”
“We need people from all around the world. We need entrepreneurs, we need students that we're educating in our schools that we then throw out and we should make sure they can stay here. If we don't have the new flux of immigrants, nobody's going to create the jobs for the Americans who are currently out of work.”
“I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.”

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